Kansas at home
How's this for home cooking? Kansas is 6-0 at home this year beating Central Michigan, SE Louisiana, Toledo, FIU, Baylor and Nebraska by a combined score of 348 to 72. That's an average of 58-12. Iowa State comes to Lawrence on November 17th.

Memphis QB Martin Hankins
Memphis lost to East Carolina 56-40 after winning two straight, but it wasn't the fault of senior QB Martin Hankins, who completed 34 of 60 passes for 416 yards and four touchdowns with two interceptions. In the three games since coming back from injury, he has completed 80 of 130 passes for 1,077 yards (averaging 359 per game) with nine touchdowns and four interceptions. Up next is Southern Miss.

Virginia in close games
The Cavaliers are now 8-2 after beating Wake Forest 17-16. Their last three wins have come by one point each, while six of the eight wins have come by a grand total of 12 points, beating North Carolina by two, Georgia Tech by five, Middle Tennessee by two, and Connecticut, Maryland and Wake Forest by one.

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Miami QB Kirby Freeman
There was a quarterback battle for the starting Miami job coming into the season, with junior Kirby Freeman battling with Kyle Wright. A star recruit, things haven't exactly worked out for Freeman, especially this year, stepping in for an oft-injured Wright to complete 18 of 58 passes (31%) for 256 yards and three touchdowns with six interceptions.  How bad have things gotten? He completed four of 11 passes for 59 yards and a touchdown with two interceptions in the win over Florida State, and then he completed one of 14 passes for 84 yards with a touchdown and three interceptions in the loss to NC State.

Ole Miss QB Brent Schaeffer
Ole Miss has been searching for continuity at quarterbacks, but Seth Adams has been inconsistent while battling injuries. In comes Brent Schaeffer, the former Tennessee Volunteer who was the starter for most of last year, he struggled last year completing just 47% of his throws with nine touchdown passes and ten interceptions, while showing little of his running ability. This year he's been simply awful, completing 12 of 35 passes (34%) for 255 yards with three touchdowns and an interception. He completed three of 13 passes for 64 yards and a touchdown in the win over Northwestern State.

Troy turnovers
Troy has been solid over the last several weeks, winning seven straight before battling in a loss to Georgia, but it's had problems hanging on to the ball lately. The Trojans have lost seven interceptions and eight fumbles making it 15 turnovers in three weeks. Western Kentucky, with a solid 21 takeaways on the year, is up next.

Michigan State in close games
The Spartans are on a three-game losing streak and have lost five games this year. All five losses have come by a touchdown or less, losing to Wisconsin by three, to Northwestern by seven in overtime, to Ohio State by seven, to Iowa by seven in overtime, and this week, to Michigan by four. Purdue is up next.

Notre Dame's passing offense
Navy had allowed 191 passing yards or more in every game and an average of 281 yards per game with 19 touchdowns and just six interceptions. Notre Dame ran on the Midshipmen, but managed a mere 140 yards with two touchdowns. In other words, the Irish faced one of the nation's worst pass defenses and saw its passing offense ranking go down. To put this into perspective, the Irish is 114th in the nation in passing offense, and is averaging 48 yards per game more than Navy, who's last in the country. However, the Midshipmen are averaging 277 more rushing yards per game.